Religion in Egypt controls many aspects of social life and is endorsed by law. The state religion of Egypt is Islam. Although estimates vary greatly in the absence of official statistics. Since the 2006 census religion has been excluded, and thus available statistics are estimates made by religious and non-governmental agencies.
Among the common religious sights in Egypt is the mosque next to the church, wherein 2002 under the Mubarak government, (January 7) was considered an official holiday on the occasion of Christmas in Egypt, although Christians represent the minimum in law enforcement, state security, and public functions And from being discriminated against in the workforce on the basis of their religion.
Relations with the Coptic minority
Coptic Christians, who represent the oldest religions in Egypt, have become the largest ethnic and religious minority in Egypt after entering the Islamic conquest of Egypt, and they are now more affected by legislation that may discriminate between them. Copts in Egypt faced increasing marginalization after the 1952 coup led by Gamal Abdel Nasser. Until recently, Christians had to obtain presidential approval even for minor church reforms. Although the law was relaxed in 2005 by handing over the authority to approve rulers, Copts no longer face obstacles in building new churches.
The details of religious belief changed with the passage of time, as the roots of religion go back to prehistoric times in Egypt and lasted for more than 3000 years, as the importance of certain deities increased and decreased, and their complex relationships changed at some times, and therefore some deities became prominent to others, including That is the sun god Ra, the creator god Amun, and the mother goddess Isis. For a short period, in the theology promulgated by the pharaoh Akhenaten, who moved his capital to Tel El Amarna in El Minya nowadays, a new single god was promoted, Aten, replaced the traditional pantheon. The ancient Egyptian religion and legends left behind many writings and monuments other than the great influences on ancient and modern cultures.
The ancient Egyptian people surrounded by the natural phenomena and depends on their very existence have conceived around them divine powers inhabiting the cosmic elements, on top of which are the earth, the sky, the ether, and the flood of the Nile as well as the sun and the moon. These forces, which were embodied in human bodies, crystallized many cosmic deities of general importance to everyone, to the degree that these deities are no longer associated in their origins with any region or city in the country because by their presence in each place there was no need for an organized form of a creed or a specific local temple Exactly. According to the poetic imagination of an eastern people, these human ideals were brought down to these deities, as they were referred to in the language of human nature itself. We have reached a few of these myths in full form and from relatively late ages, but innumerable references to mythical events in some ancient texts indicate that these myths were already flourishing since the end of the Fifth Dynasty at least.
According to the ancient Egyptians conviction about Gods, man is the servant of the Lord who is celibate in his worship and love. Although most of the aforementioned traits are attributed to the god (Ptah), this is merely a coincidence, because many of the names of the flags that we know about the ancient state were related to the relics, most of which were found in the area of Memphis. It is natural for the frequency of the appearance of the other deity name to be derived from the names of other deities that we find that the eye of the attributes that we found are related to the names of individuals composed of the name (Ptah) attributed to these deities also or to any other deity, and in fact to the deities in general.
In early times the deceased pharaoh was believed to ascend to the sky and dwell among the stars. Over the course of the Old Kingdom (c. 2686–2181 BC), however, he came to be more closely associated with the daily rebirth of the sun god Ra and with the underworld ruler Osiris as those deities grew more important.
In the fully developed afterlife beliefs of the New Kingdom, the soul had to avoid a variety of supernatural dangers in the Duat, before undergoing a final judgment, known as the “Weighing of the Heart”, carried out by Osiris and by the Assessors of Maat. In this judgment, the gods compared the actions of the deceased while alive (symbolized by the heart) to Maat, to determine whether he or she had behaved in accordance with Maat. If the deceased was judged worthy, his or her ka and ba were united into an akh. Several beliefs coexisted about the akh’s destination. Often the dead were said to dwell in the realm of Osiris, lush and pleasant land in the underworld. The solar vision of the afterlife, in which the deceased soul traveled with Ra on his daily journey, was still primarily associated with royalty but could extend to other people as well. Over the course of the Middle and New Kingdoms, the notion that the akh could also travel in the world of the living, and to some degree magically affect events there, became increasingly prevalent.
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